Qwest, our Denver-based telephone company, is having some fun with the Nuggets playoff run. The Baby Bell creatively gave away courtside tickets to Nuggets games during the second round via Twitter.

For the Western Conference finals, the increasingly cutting-edge company is expanding its social-media ticket giveaway to include Facebook, Tumblr and Brightkite. I’ve never even heard of the latter two.

Anyway, the goal is to find one of 20 blue basketballs (shown below) between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday. The balls will be all over the metro area and Qwest will give location clues on its social-media pages. Once you find one, you have to take it to the Qwest store in Boulder, where you’ll have a chance to win a pair of courtside seats to Saturday’s game against the mighty Lakers.

Andy Vuong joined The Denver Post as a business reporter in 2000 after graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a news-editorial degree. His primary beats are gambling, telecommunications and technology. Over the years, his coverage has included everything from aviation to federal courts.